A Blander Blog

is a sun-dappled picnic basket filled with familiar flavors made slightly alien by the warmth.
“Walkabout” with Noah Lennox.

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Sandy Denny - Mark Olson
The Optimist - Sandy Denny
Who Knows Where the Time Goes [excerpt] - Nina Simone
In My Time of Dying - Led Zeppelin
The Long Black Veil - Lefty Frizzell
Fearless - Mary Lou Lord
Crystal Park - Vanishing Voices
Colorado - Grizzly Bear
Satta Massa Gana - Cedric IM Brooks
Cirkus Impala - Samla Mammas Manna
End of Time [...]

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Soft Machine icon Hugh Hopper dies .

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If Not Now, Whenever - The Books
In Crowded Rooms, On Empty Streets - Dead Letters Spell Out Dead Words
Bending Spoons - Jasper TX
The Drum Also Waltzes - Max Roach
Installation 1 - Seaworthy
Those of the Void Will Re-Enter - Absu
Pink Lady Lemonade You’re from Outer Space (Part 2) - Acid Mothers Temple & the Cosmic Inferno
Ghost [...]

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Billy the Kid [excerpt] - Jack Spicer
Middle Cyclone - Neko Case
Port Authority - Opsvik & Jennings
Star Fruits Surf Rider - Cornelius
Meh No Mae - Asobi Seksu
The Chain - Fleetwood Mac
Petits son appétissants - Faust
Prédications - Ulan Bator
Rubidoux - Kristin Hersh
Offend Maggie - Deerhoof
Kalimba - Suí Vesan

The mix can be downloaded here.
Also posted at Making Mixtapes and Zen Running [...]

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My Gospel Song for You - Mark Olson & Gary Louris
I’m Not in Love - 10cc
Alone On Piano - Colin Newman
Fonograf - Machinefabriek
Not a Robot, But a Ghost - Andrew Bird
Woa - Zazou/Bikaye/CY1
No Name Tune - Guillermo Klein & Los Guachos
Africa Anteria - Magma
Egypt Strut - The Sun Ra Arkestra
Long Distance Runaround - The Bad [...]

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Arve Henriksen - Ascent
Robert Fripp/Brian Eno - Ankaa
Naked City - Fleurs du Mal
KTL - Game
Günter Müller/Toshimaru Nakamura - …..tint
Roscoe Mitchell Quintet - For Now
Gavin Bryars - Last Hymn (from The Sinking of the Titanic)
Vladimir Spivakov/Sergej Bezrodny - Spiegel im Spiegel - 1 [Arvo Pärt]
Philip Jeck - Residue
Aphex Twin - Lichen

The mix can be downloaded here.
Also posted [...]

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Thom Yorke - And it Rained All Night
Apparat - Birds
Terre Loves Robin (a.k.a. Scanner & Terre) - Terre Loves Robin
Theo Bleckmann - An den kleinen Radioapparat
The Bowed Piano Ensemble & Victoria Hansen- Evening on Como (Stephen Scott)
Necronomicon - Wenn die Haifische Menschen wären
Einstürzende Neubauten - U-Haft-Muzak
Jackie-O Motherfucker - Native Einstein
Muslimgauze - Extract 2
Sightings - The [...]

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Adrian Sherwood/Doug Wimbish - Karma-Cola
Luc Ferrari - Place des Abbesses [excerpt]
Firewitch - Villain
KK Null - 7 (from ERG per GALAXY)
Robert Black - Look She Said: IV (Christian Wolff)
Davy Graham - Better Get Hit In Your Soul (Charles Mingus)
The Jazztet - Blues March (Benny Golson)
Moppa Elliott’s Mostly Other People Do the Killing - Moanin’ (Bobby Timmons)
Barnacled [...]

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Christian Wallumrød Ensemble - Arch Dance with Trumpet
Joan La Barbara - Slow Waltz [Morton Feldman]
David Grubbs - The Not-So-Distant
Christina Carter - Original Darkness
Gamelan Son of Lion - Random Chords
Humi - Seki No Gohonmatsu
Aidan Baker/Tim Hecker - Dream of the Nightmare
Grails - The Natural Man
Ugur Dogan - Vital
Jan Jelinek - Moiré (Strings)

The mix can be downloaded [...]

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